The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-22

| nut desk, and the only furniture about
him consists OF two high -backed chairs,
painted red, which look us though
they were intended for alawn or front
porch. Up two or three steps at the
right is another landing, leading to the
office OF Col. Crook. the disbursing clerk
OF the White House, on the lett hand,
and to Col. LaInont's Office on the
right. A yellow Brussels carpet Gov
ers the floor OF this, and a $12 wal
nut table ser YES as q desk for Arthur,
the messenger OF Col. Lamont. In
one corner stands a little four-gallon
black water cooler upon II cheap oil
cloth. Under the spiggot sits f. COM
mon tin slop-bucket to catch the drip
pings, and over the knob mt the top
is turned Jelly tumbler with q thick
and ragged rim. 1t is used as u
drinking glass.
Col. Crooks room is large, airy and
we'll lighted. 1t has good carpet,
two or three desks and little safe,
in which is kept the money which
runs the White House. A fire blazes
in the fireplace, and in front OF this
lies another Smyrna rug the binding
of which is badly fraycd. Who sleeps
i'm this room | do not know, but a
folding bed, with u plate-glass front,
arranged so that it looks like u
ward. robe, stands in one corner OF
the room, and close inspection will
show the bedclothes looking out be-
tween the cracks.
Col. Lamont has n very fair room,
and it is moderately furnished. There
is n bookcase Mt one side, and at dif.
ferent parts OF this room two revolving
bookcases made OF walnut, which prob
ably cost SIG apiece. There are china
spittoons in this room, and the furni-
ture is upholstered in red leather. La
mont has chair OF state big enough
for the fattes king that ever sat upon
a throne. His desk is big flat wal
nut one, and it is usually covered with
papers, and the colonel il very hard
worked man. Beside him at another
desk sits Col. Henley, the assistant
private secretary, who is always writ
ing or opening letters. He opens hun
dreds of letters n day, and II he had q
cent for each word he writes he would
be one OF the richest men in America.
Into Col. Lamont's room there are
doors entering from the cabinet room
Mt the right, and the clerks rooms at
the left. The clerks rooms look like
well-furnshed law Offices and two or
three clerks are here constantly busy.
Col. Lamont has little den in a
room off from Col. Crooks, where
there is telegraph Office and n tele-
phone, and a man working at the ty Pc
writer. When Lamont is very busy
he shuts himself up in this, and he is
as hard to get at as though he were
out OF the city. The cabinet room
and that OF the President are, OF
course, better furnished than those
have so far described. President
Cleveland works behind desk which
was present from Queen Victoria,
and around him hang beautiful pict-
ures, and ut his right hand blazes
bright fire. At his back are windows
giving q magnificent view OF the
Patomac and the Virginia hills, and
in the shelves otthe bookcases around
the walls is the White House library.
There is an elevator in the White
House. though few people know it, and
the old house has as many curious
hooks and corners as you will find IT
the curiosity shop OF some "Old Nor,
tality." The old house has outlived
it's usefulness as place OF residence:
1t should be turned into Offices, and
congress should give an appropriation
big enough to refurnish the business
part of it.. The president should have
q residence apart from it, and he
should have a chance to get away
from his work like any other man o.
business.